With the campaign season in full swing, 10 hopefuls on Wednesday night pitched their vision for the city’s future to at the “Meet the Candidates” forum at the Good Samaritan Lutheran Church in the west valley.
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Clark County will likely challenge a district court judge’s decision in the ongoing litigation with Gypsum Resources to the state Supreme Court.
The Property and Environment Research Center released a report finding annual adoptions of wild horses and burros have more than doubled since the adoption incentive program began five years ago.
President Joe Biden’s son is still scheduled to stand trial beginning June 3 on federal gun charges in a separate case in Delaware.
Hazardous-materials teams were called in after the vials were discovered, according to the U.S. Capitol Police, who said they would continue to investigate.
Las Vegas Councilwoman Michele Fiore led the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition in a 6-4 vote Tuesday to disband after 20 years, with its most important responsibility transferred to another agency.
Nevada is asking a federal judge to amend a lawsuit so the state can force the federal government to remove a half metric ton of plutonium secretly shipped to the Nevada National Security Site last fall.
The rule would eliminate “categorical eligibility,” which allows some people enrolled in other federal assistance programs to automatically qualify for food stamps.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a toddler who died in foster care alleges that Nevada and Clark County officials routinely endanger the children they’re charged with protecting.
Montevista Hospital — one of Southern Nevada’s biggest psychiatric facilities — will be cut off from Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement and is barred from accepting new patients.
North Las Vegas recently provided a 12-month notice to end the contract to house up to 315 of its inmates — mostly men — in the Las Vegas Detention Center.
Proposed at 400 S. Decatur Blvd., the estimated $94.5 million project will fill a “huge need” in the city, Councilwoman Olivia Diaz said.
The tour, which began Monday in Las Vegas, is intended to “call out Republicans for the health-care emergency they are creating,” an organizer said.